smokeypup

This is deductive.

Honestly, you will have an extremely hard time on the market with an interdisciplinary degree. Only interdisciplinary prorgrams will hire you, and there are far fewer of those than soc programs. Sociologists only hire sociologists (with rare exceptions), whereas interdisciplinary programs regularly hire sociologists. It may seem like a wonderful intellectual opportunity now. But the job market is rough, and it will be very hard to get a job with an interdisciplinary degree. How many (and what %) of graduates in the interdisciplinary program have gotten academic jobs in the last 5 years? And what kinds of jobs? I think a top 5 soc program with relatively good fit is going to give you far more opportunities than the interdisciplinary program.

If you want a good book on stata, which seems to be the norm in top departments, I would recommend this book: http://www.stata.com/bookstore/regression-models-categorical-dependent-variables/ It gives you the logic of the models and the stata commands for categorical models, post estimation and presentation of data.

If you want to do research, it is important to think about the methods training you will get at each program.

Just send a quick email to the secretary. I did this for waitlisted schools as soon as I had made a decision, or I knew for sure I wouldn't be going there.

I went to undergrad there, my financé was a grad student there, and I have a few friends who almost did the soc program there. In the communication department, my financé's contract was not honored and he was forced to find a job in another department his 5th year (although he was guaranteed 5 years of funding). I do not know if soc has or will do the same. For fall 2009, a friend was accepted but they were only offering 75% tuition remission with no guarantees of RA or TAships. But, some admitted folks were offered full funding. I would say wait for your funding package. The good thing about ucsd is that they need lots of TAs for writing programs, which grad students in the social sciences and humanities frequently do. So that is something.

When I was accepted 2 years ago, there was a 1-2 week gap between the first acceptance and the last. They usually have a faculty member call the acceptees, so it is likely when they make this call is up to the faculty member. Don't fret! I got my call about 6 days after the first one was reported.

I am a 2nd year PhD student in the social sciences and am currently planning a wedding for august. So far, so good. Just start the planning now, and do as much as you can during summers/spring breaks, etc. It is definitely possible and not too stressful. As far a stigma, I was a little weird about it at first, but there are a lot of married men/women and families in my department, and many of them more on track in terms of completion time than their single counterparts. You'll be fine.

I think the main reason is that hard sciences generally have more money. So they can pay to fly people out. Also, generally those programs have graduate students working directly under faculty in a lab or something. Soc doesn't have this. But mainly, I think it is money.

UC Berkeley soc department a few years didn't hide the other CC's who had been rejected. The DGS emailed everyone blaming the department secretary--shit always rolls down hill.

I just checked my application status after reading this and a weird thing happen. The date they "received" my grad transcript has mysteriously changed. When I submitted my app, it said they received them on oct 28. Now it says they received them on dec 14. Has this happened to anyone else? THink it will make me ineligible?

Most top soc departments in the US do not really have "theory" students. Perhaps looking in europe would be wise. Additionally, you could check political science programs who have a strong theory department--they will likely have faculty who do lots of social theory.

If you can, I would definitely go to a good soc program. Criminology and criminal justice programs will always hire sociologists, but sociology programs will rarely hire criminology-trained phds--pure bias. There are a ton of crim jobs available right now, and 99% of them are in soc departments.

Ah, ok. I read that line as "my" publications or presentations.

I have another question. There are some contradictions in the 10 point font stipulation across different NSF documents. The program solicitation states that references can be in 10 pt font. However, the "prepare application" user guide says that "Only publications and presentation citations may be a smaller font, no less than 10 pt. Times New Roman." Does this include references???